Everyday Love: The Plan

About 2 weeks after my marriage to Jill, I left her the first of what I now call, "everyday love notes". It read simply, "Sleep on my queen and when you dream, dream me to be your king." 19 and half years, and several hundred notes later, I still find a new reason everyday to fall in love with her and I am still searching for the right words to express it.

So for the next year I am writing an "everyday love note" everyday. Honest expression of a man's love for his wife and how daily that love looks, lives and lasts.

All of these I will post here , and all of these I will write and leave for Jill.

Year in Review

I have learned a lot over the past year while trying to write each of these poems on a daily basis. It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be but neither is love. There are good poems, great poems and poems that still need work...just like boening in love, there are good days, great days and days that I could have put some more work into. And even though every line is true...just like true love, sometimes it is stretch or hope that gets you there.

I hope there has been something the eveyone can relate to and draw from...I don't think my experience is too far removed when you really think about why you love the one you do. Thanks for reading and loving. Most of all, thanks to Jill, for being the women who inspired this project and daily gives me reasons to love her. I love you.

Dan

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Love offers

Love offers a firm foundation
Love offers a soul vacation
Love offers a stronger will
Love offers wheat to mill
Love offers a hand to hold
Love offers time to grow old
Love offers a safe space
Love offers a willing chase
Love offers a soft falling
Love offers a sacred calling
Love offer you to me
I accepted forever and completely

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

A brighter future

Its hard work
living a simple life
but you make it easy

The toil and strain
and daily strife
are lightened when your with me

I never knew a joyful tear
until the day we kissed
you took away all my fear
fulfilled my every wish

Life with you is a blessing
each day a new adventure
the pain of past is lessening
as I looked to a brighter future

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Mexican Moonlight

On a clear warm night in June

I place you in the light of the Mexican moon

Drapped in silver robes and beams

I see you. My hope, my fantasy, my dreams


Standing there

Almost bear

I stop to stare

As the summer air

Stirs my heart.


Monday, July 4, 2011

lighting up the world tonight

Let our love be this night

A shining glorious light

For all the world to see

That you belong to me


Let the rhythm of the stars

Mimic that of ours

Shining and shooting bright

Lighting up the world tonight


Sunday, July 3, 2011

Over time braided together

Like braided string
each one brings
dreams an hope
to the marriage rope

Woven over time
as each serve in kind
the rope grows long
beautiful and strong

If left to it's own
the trap has sown
a snare on the ground
is likely to be found

If put it ill use
this rope is a noose
strung on a lover's gallows
where feeling remain shallow

Use this rope to climb
from dark and deep designs
Use this rope pull
all the love you can lasso

This rope is meant to tie
and bind us forever
Made of our hopes and dreams
over time braided together.


 

Saturday, July 2, 2011

You are as this season

On a summer day
the sunshine louds
and the air sways
long and proud

The creek calls
children answer
lovers rise and fall
mimic the flowered dancer

Today was such a day
you are as this season
beckoning me to play
giving hope a reason.

Friday, July 1, 2011

Each day you pull me through

I have little more to say
as this day closes swiftly
One more time in one more way
maybe then you'll believe me

You are something exceptional
a different type, spectacular
you exceed the potential
of all human vernacular

Breadth and depth are small measures
of all you are to me
the world and all its treasures
are but a tenth of thee

You enhance the life we live
by simply being you
Each day you give and give
each day you pull me through